
A Piece of Nothing.
2020, Weighted memory foam, 300x190x180mm, 3280g.
This piece of nothing (or ‘no-thing’) allows us to grasp boredom through being equally as undefined as boredom itself. The object is ‘nothing’ by not having a clear shape and by not possessing a clear outline. You cannot really interact with boredom, you can only feel it. To feel bored is to experience nothing at all, with no desire to make a change.
Boredom, as well as this ‘no-thing’, feels light and malleable yet heavy and sluggish at the same time. Light because of the sheer emptiness and heavy because of the perceived pointlessness of undertaking any possible action.
Boredom is a beautiful state that has the power of reflecting the pointlessness of life. To be in a state of boredom is to have the privilege to be in a state from where anything is theoretically possible and that is what makes boredom, in a certain way, freedom too.